Sunflower Desert

Well, I have to admit, I have plenty to choose from. What a crazy blogging week. Once again, ALL comments are appreciated (except for the porn spam crap) but there can only be one winner per week. Well, actually, there’s more than one winner because you guys are suppose to post a favorite comment from your own blog here too. Remember? Okay, please feel free to link back to your post and even to the commenter’s post.

Alas, I have to make a decision, and this one just made me chuckle. I love it when Velvethammer starts schooling the trolls that come along. And school she did in the Happy Independence Day thread:

Marcas - If only you’d allow other countries to have independance (sic) too!

Pardon me, but you have a lot of nerve dissing the US when all the while you support chavez. What hypocrisy.

And if you feel the need to question our love for watermelon, then you will never get it, and must not have ever eaten it.

I mean the girl tops it off with a smiley rolling its eyes . How great is that? I am very thankful for the good blogging friends I have that help keep the trolls in check.

Now, get busy and come back with your favorite comments left on your own blogs. I know they’re out there because I’m reading them everyday.

Happy Friday kids!

I looked and looked, hoping I could find someone blogging on this so that I wouldn’t have to. Oh well, you can’t win them all. So, here it is:

Racy Cell Phone Clips, Longing and Waiting, for Men of Ramallah Seeking Love

By MATT GUTMAN

RAMALLAH, West Bank, July 12, 2007 —

The four men are huddled over a cell phone screen. Its faint color splashes over the stairwell of a dingy shopping center in Ramallah, the de facto Palestinian capital.

In the 30-second video, a man pressures a young woman to perform a sex act. She appears to be a conservative, veiled Muslim, but grudgingly complies. The men watching shift their feet anxiously, being caught watching the clip would bring immediate disgrace.

The men, all in their late 20s, all considered middle-class professionals, watch with eyes sprung open, and with apparent self-disgust. It’s the closest thing to sex they’ve ever had.

I’m sorry, but they must not be counting livestock?

In a place where tradition prohibits premarital sex, young, frustrated men are increasingly turning to outlets like cell phone pornography. Some unmarried men seek out Ramallah’s few prostitutes, but the vast majority remain virgins, bursting with pent-up sexual energy, until their wedding night.

Cell phones are selling at a blistering rate. Ramallah is packed with cell phone shops, offering not only the newest Nokia models but accessories like leather holsters and shiny, new touch pads. And the Palestinian Telecommunications Co., the primary cell provider in the West Bank and Gaza, has grown to become the largest stock traded on the Palestinian Securities Exchange, according to the PSE Web site.

Suhaib, 28, is a researcher for the Palestinian Authority. “When I first watched it,” he said after leading this reporter back into a cafe, “it made me desire more and more and more. I felt ashamed by it, and I only watched each video once.”

Marriage Prospects

Some of the porn comes from Ramallah and East Jerusalem, typically forwarded from acquaintance to acquaintance. Some of the clips come from as far away as Kuwait.

Unlike his friends, Suhaib is getting married in January. He’s lucky. He’ll marry his cousin, who is 14 years old. The family connection, he says, worked to his benefit.

“Because she’s my cousin, they gave us a good price of $4,000 for the dowry. That’s considered an average dowry these days,” he said.

Okay, that’s all I’m posting. You’ll have to go here to read the rest of this crap concerning the sex lives of your every day terrorist.